Virgin Media Among The First To Deny Access To Pirate Bay In UK

Virgin Media became one of the first Internet Service Providers to stop its customers accessing the filesharing website The Pirate Bay after last week’s high court ruling that it contravenes copyright laws.

Virgin Media are the UK’s second biggest ISP just behind BT with 21.5% of the market share and this move would have seen millions of users denied access to what is one of the internet’s largest filesharing sites.

The Pirate Bay themselves have been waging a battle against those claiming that they infringe copyright laws for a long time, only a few months ago they reverted from using Bit Torrents to using Magnet Links and are even looking at hosting their site on drones that can hover above cities to beat the censors. Their biggest battle is against the RIAA (Record Industry Association of America) and the MPAA (Movie Picture Association of America) who are furiously trying to the Pirate Bay closed down for good.

BT who provides 27.5% of the market share are expected to follow in Virgin Media’s footsteps within the next week and stop its users from accessing The Pirate Bay. It is expected that all other ISP’s will follow suit shortly in compliance with the high court ruling.

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